容易误译的英语 | bring one's pigs to a fine [pretty] market
［例句］ This old woman brought her pigs to a fine market.
［误译］ 这个老妇人把她养的猪带到高价市场去卖。
短篇小说 | The Power of Words
OINOS. Pardon, Agathos, the weakness of a spirit new-fledged with immortality!
短篇小说 | Cupid A La Carte
"The dispositions of woman," said Jeff Peters, after various opinions on the subject had been advanced, "run, regular, to diversions.
短篇小说 | Nég Créol
AT the remote period of his birth he had been named César François Xavier, but no one ever thought of calling him anything but Chicot, or Nég, or Maringouin.
容易误译的英语 | bring...home (to one)
［例句］ You should bring the harmfulness of mad dogs home to your naughty child.
［误译］ 你应该把那些有危害性的疯狗带回家吓一吓你那个调皮的孩子。
短篇小说 | The Oval Portrait
The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.
短篇小说 | Conscience in Art
"I never could hold my partner, Andy Tucker, down to legitimate ethics of pure swindling," said Jeff Peters to me one day.
短篇小说 | Miss McEnders
When Miss Georgie McEnders had finished an elaborately simple toilet of gray and black, she divested herself completely of rings, bangles, brooches – everything to suggest that she stood in friendly relations with fortune.
容易误译的英语 | briefs
［例句］ He bought a pair of briefs.
［误译］ 他买了两张文摘报。
短篇小说 | The Oblong Box
Some years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship "Independence," Captain Hardy. We were to sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my stateroom.
短篇小说 | Confessions Of A Humorist
There was a painless stage of incubation that lasted twenty-five years, and then it broke out on me, and people said I was It.
短篇小说 | Mamouche
Marshall grumbled audibly, and Doctor John-Luis continued to inspect the boy through his glasses.
